Living Classroom Foundation's
Tall Ships®Youth Adventure
"Fresh Start" Program

Living Classrooms Foundation (LCF) is a non-profit organization providing hands-on education and job skills training for students from diverse backgrounds, with a special emphasis on serving at-risk youth.The Foundation uses maritime settings, community revitalization projects and other challenging learning environments. Their "learning by doing" education programs emphasize the applied learning of math, science, literacy, history, economics, and ecology. Key objectives of all Living Classrooms programs are career development, community service, elevating self-esteem, and fostering multicultural exchange.

LCF's Tall Ships® Youth Adventure “Fresh Start” students spent summer days learning sailing basics at the O’Brien Sailing Center as a prelude to their weeklong experience aboard the schooner Lady Maryland. Some of their journaling entries follow.

	“Every time we were on the water, the wind would blow different ways, so we would have to move the sails and sheets different ways to make the wind push us fast.”
	“We learned about the all the parts of the boat – starboard, port, boom, jib, stern, bow, halyards, sheets, etc. It felt good to know what we were doing and feel safe on the water. I thought it would be scary but it was fun.”
	“The main thing about sailing is you have to work together to get somewhere.”
	“I feel good about it because when me and the other guys are sailing, then that lets me know that we are doing good in the program and the staff trusts us.”
	“My experience with sailing was very fun. Baltimore looks like a different place when we are floating on the water.”